Will Twinity’s Avatar Sex Sell?

Metaversum GmbH promotes virtual sex – urges players to "get laid" The Twinity virtual world newsletter and web site are now playing the cybersex card hard – a turnabout after several years of relatively tame promotional efforts. Is this a cry of desperation for population – or a keen understanding the core audience? Whatever the [...]

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Second Life’s New Naming Policy

What’s In a Name? by Justine Babii Back in August, when the rumors of a change in the naming system were first starting to ripple around the metaverse, it didn’t occur to me that Second Life would be doing away with surnames. Protagonist, Murphy, Money, Serpentine and all of the other original 2003 names have [...]

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Beverly Winkler — Post 6 Grrrrl

[I met Beverly Winkler quite some time ago and fell in love with her avatar. I begged her to pose for us. She promised to consider and then never got back to me. When I bumped into her again months later at a completely different place it seemed too much like fate and fortunately for [...]

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Hazy Memories from Style Street

by Justine Babii Part the First: Or, How I Name-Drop Myself Back into Second Life The other day I was revisiting Second Life for the first time in ages, and I had the wonderful opportunity to spend time with Carol Pixelmaid, the vivacious spouse of your own Photographer-in-Residence, Timothy Morpork. We were talking about the [...]

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Carine Ceriano — Post 6 Grrrrl

[Carine Ceriano is one of my favorite people in SL, and as soon as I step out of the way and let you at her bio, I bet you'll see why. Feisty, fun and gorgeous, Carine has been the life of several parties I've had the good fortune to attend, and I'll bet her newest [...]

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Galactic War Rages – Star Wars Roleplay in Second Life

Join the war effort today by Cayce Urriah, Mandalorian Reporter Very recently, in a galaxy far, far away within the Metaverse of Second Life, battles rage, blasters light the night with crimson, and there is… yes, there is only war. The long standing order of the Dark Lords of the Sith, ruling from their fortress [...]

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Philip Linden: All Copyable Content Will Be Free

Second Life founder suggests selling live experiences Second Life’s content creators may be in deep trouble if Philip Rosedale – the on-again, off-again CEO of Linden Lab – can forsee the future of online content. Mr. Rosedale is quoted in the Time magazine  Future of Content Time 100 Roundtable as saying, "anything that can be [...]

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Moonray Zsun — Post 6 Robot

[I try to find people of all types, and avatars of all shapes and sizes. I only recently realized that I'd left out an entire segment; robots. I put the word out to my friends and one of them found Moonray Zsun, who I can say in all honesty is the smartest and sexiest robot [...]

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Op/Ed: You’ve Lost That Web 2.0 Feeling

Capturing the analog human spirit in a soulless digital environment by Tizzers Foxchase In 2006, Time Magazine named You the Person of the year. With user-generated content dominating over half of all web traffic, there is no doubt that the antiquated, unidirectional methods of media delivery are giving way to the notion that we are [...]

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3 Amazing Second Life Sims You’ve *Never* Heard Of

by Cayce Urriah, Mandalorian Reporter Kowloon In February of 1997, a small time game company under the name Zeque released an adventure role playing game for the Playstation called Kowloon’s Gate. In the game, the destroyed Walled City, Kowloon, reappeared from the netherworld. Recreating itself in the streets of Hong Kong, it was determined to [...]

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